Materials Engineering

Entry requirements

MPhil: Applicants for MPhil must normally hold an undergraduate degree at 2.1 level (or Non-UK equivalent as defined by Swansea University) in Engineering or similar relevant science discipline.

PhD: Applicants for PhD must normally hold an undergraduate degree at 2.1 level (or Non-UK equivalent as defined by Swansea University) in Engineering or similar relevant science discipline.

Months of entry

January, April, July, October

Course content

With our main research strengths of aerospace materials, environmental materials and steel technology, Swansea University provides an excellent base for your research as a PhD or MPhil student in Materials Engineering.

To find out more about the world-leading research that we do visit the Materials Research Centre website.

Recent PhD theses supervised in the area of Materials Engineering at Swansea University include

• Bioinspired investigation via x-ray computed micromography
• Characterisation of Compressor Abradable Systems
• Validation of a high integrity/repair process for aerospace materials
• Constitutive behaviour in turbine disc alloys
• Investigating the dwell crack growth and creep resistance behaviour of next generation nickel disc alloys
• Addressing the scale up challenges of solid state mesoscopic solar cells
• Low cost dye sensitized solar cells on metal substrates
• Role of environment and its effects on high temperature corrosion-fatigue life in nickel based superalloys

Find out more about some of the academic staff supervising theses in these areas in our Directory of Expertise.

We are ranked:

• Top 100-150 in the World for Materials Science (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026)

Fees and funding